Sarah has over 14 years of experience managing international research and development projects, with expertise in cross-country survey research and a focus on people-centered justice, rule of law, and environmental governance. She has managed global surveys in more than 120 countries and regional studies focused on Latin America, the Caribbean, and Sub-Saharan Africa, as well as country-specific assessments in Nepal and Senegal.

At NORC, Sarah manages the implementation of international assessments and survey projects. She currently manages projects for the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency that touch on a variety of governance and development issues. These include managing simultaneous assessments of women’s political participation and leadership and qualitative research to support the launch of a lab for rule of law innovation and design. Sarah is also managing a three-year study to evaluate survey-based predictions on a variety of topics such as civilian conflict, health care utilization, and agricultural decision-making in six countries against predictions generated using alternative methodologies, such as AI, and novel modeling approaches.

In her previous roles with the World Justice Project (WJP), Sarah led thematic research on people-centered justice, the UN Sustainable Development Goals, and environmental governance. This entailed managing a General Population Poll in more than 120 countries for WJP’s annual Rule of Law Index, designing and piloting a household survey on legal needs and access to justice in 101 countries, and developing the conceptual and methodological framework for a 2019 justice gap assessment that has been widely cited by policymakers, researchers, and donors working in the rule of law and justice sector. Sarah also led a study—including development of the methodology, data collection, analysis, and final report production—on environmental governance in 10 Latin American and Caribbean countries in collaboration with the Inter-American Development Bank.

Sarah is fluent in English and French and highly proficient in Spanish.